It’s telling that these types of parties are becoming more prevalent (or more widely exposed). My personal belief is that parties like this are deemed by the people throwing them as a safe outlet to practice exclusion where increasing inclusion is taking place at the institutional level.

More and more minorities are enrolling at colleges, law schools and other institutions. On some level it’s threatening to these people’s perceived notions of merit or rightful place in society. They’re wrong - plain and simple.

That’s just how I see it.

Good learning experience for all of us. Humiliation at best. Job loss at worst.

First, your phrase “As for the tipster, snitches get stiches,” is compelling. Next time, spell “stitches” with a second “t.” Thank you and God bless.

Second, if most of TLS feels sorry for the students who threw a party based on an ethnic stereotype, that might just verify some of the unkind words on this website. That is to say: Future lawyers should know enough not to throw parties based on bias and stereotypes.

Third, you have a white woman who colors your hair. Thanks for sharing. Is that relevant to anything else?

That restaurant is not racist although it does what these kids do in a much more public forum and for profit? Why? Is it because that restaurant is owned by a wealthy caucasian family, yet all the workers are lower-income Mexicans and Mexican-Americans? Maybe it’s because the people who profit off of more serious exploitation are really rich and powerful white people, unlike the people depicted here. You would know that if pictures of the guest of honor were published on here–she obviously colors her hair herself, which, ironically, is something I prefer to have done for me by white people.

I’ll keep comments about the rest of the people featured in these photos to myself, but let it suffice to say these are hardly the “cream of the crop” of law school. They are not powerful, particularly weathly, or impervious to the administration taking action against them. In fact, they will probably suffer some fairly serious consequences. No one has lost an offer–in fact support and pity for what has been done to these kids is pretty universal at TLS and in New Orleans.

Surely some moron will follow with a post that the consequences that befall Ms. S and others are nothing compared to the terrible racism this party inflicted on the same Hispanic people who are apparently not exploited by their employers at Border & Co. Restaurant. I can’t wait to read that and the other ones that will follow, all written by people with a lot of niche “knowledge” about racism but no earthly idea how to spell basic words or correctly form a sentence.

As for the tipster, snitches get stiches.

I don’t think these people “outed themselves.” The pictures from Facebook probably weren’t fully public, but instead were publicized only to the select list of people chosen by the user: probably “friends of friends” or some other limited group. Holding the party was (in my opinion) insensitive, and a typical “white kids from the suburbs who don’t BLEEPIN’ GET THE CONCEPT.” Putting the pictures “out there” was perhaps foolish, because they could get forwarded from someone to someone and on to someone and on and on; but they weren’t FULLY publicized. Complaining about the party (or even, in fact, forwarding the pictures of it) is way over the top: it was a private event and not related to any public function performed by the people involved. Just the same as Ken Starr asking about President Clinton’s sex life when he should have been investigating his financial investments. The lurid distracted from the legitimate.

I agree with the person who posted the long statement above, about the concept that the act of simply ACCUSING someone of being a racist, is sufficient to cause extreme social damage. Therefore, I agree with him again, that the association of the girl’s name to these accusations is unfair and should be removed. (I haven’t taken a law class on the subject, but I’d bet that it could be proven to be slanderous and therefore illegal!) She had a PRIVATE PARTY to which YOU WERE NOT INVITED and you succeed in disapproving of her behavior, in a public manner that damages her reputation? What about who she slept with. What if she dressed up as a “dyke biker” type, and you posted that you thought she was a closet-lesbian who deserved to be “outed”? What if she were dating a woman and didn’t want the world to know?

I’m disappointed in this story. I follow the legal community’s blogs and what I see, is less interest in the profession and professionalism, and more interest in sneakily making someone look bad, often in the absence of legitimate reason to do so.

Frankly, the party was stupid. Don’t have a “South of the Border” party, duh. Don’t have a “Black Pimps ‘n’ Ho’s” or a “Asian Tourists with Cameras” party either, duh.

There are threats of lawsuits for defamation on this site, but nothing about being mortified for the lapse of judgment.

Allegedly the people in the photos are going to be lawyers - officers of the court. I fail to understand why stereotypes and bias are a thing to be encouraged among soon-to-be-lawyers.

Surely that is not being taught in law school.

fiesta like the fool you are, pendejos and don’t post your pictures on the internet.

Melissa Swabacker’s friend, everybody. But these people respect Mexicans. Not prejudice at all.